I am using pbuilder-dist to build my packages for Debian unstable and Ubuntu Precise. I want to know how to run lintian (and possibly other commands) inside a certain chroot.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 on ...

Before releasing packages to Debian (and later sync them to Ubuntu) I need to test them in a sid chroot, but I get this error on a clean 14.04 system:
$ sudo DIST=sid ARCH=i386 pbuilder create
[sudo] ...

I made a small modification to the gnutls28 package from trusty. Basically I re-enabled a disabled package (as trusty defaults to gnutls26).
On my local Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit computer the build and all ...

We have developed a network pub/sub communication suite. It is in use across a number of different applications and domains, most notably on our payloads aboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...

The problem is that the package I need is coming from version 14.04 and i run 12.04
So I get the foo.dsc and try to build it using pbuilder, but the foo.dsc needs some other pkgs version which are no ...

I'm attempting to build a package using pbuilder, and would prefer to not install build dependencies on my host computer so I can keep it clean. Whenever It try to build a package, I get the following ...

From my point of view at the moment git-buildpackage is only intended for using upstream sources which are not in the same repository.
I already have a git-buildpackage repository with the branches ...

I'm following this tutorial on the Ubuntu on how to fix a bug, but am encountering a problem when I try to build the source package. In the section entitled 'Testing the fix', the reader is told to ...

I'm packaging software at work and the scope has increased to have Lucid-based as well as Karmic-based versions. Right now I just build inside a Karmic vm using git-buildpackage calling debuild, but ...